Skirt hanger



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SKIRT HANGER Filed Aug. 31, 1953 INVENTORI LEW L. PICK tates atent O cc 2,753,093 Patented July 3, 1956 SKIRT HANGER Leo L. Pick, Chicago, Ill.

Application August 31, 1953, Serial No. 377,611

4 Elairns. (Cl. 223-95) This invention relates to garment hangers, particularly of a form suitable for properly suspending a skirt.

The main objects of this invention are to provide an improved form of skirt hanger that is of simple structure and capable of mass production at low cost; to provide a skirt hanger of this type that is adapted to securely hold the garment against slipping off from the hanger; to provide an improved relation of the hook and arm portions whereby each contributes to the resiliency of the structure as a whole; and to provide in such hangers an improved form and arrangement of friction elements for engagement with the garment.

A specific embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same showing the parts in position for hanging a skirt.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation from the left of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a top plan.

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan.

In the form shown the garment hanger is constructed of a single piece of resilient wire that is first bent upon itself in one plane at its mid-point to form the hook prong 10. Its two side portions are then bent side by side in like curvature in parallel planes that lie substantially at right angles to the plane of the bend at the hook portion so as to form a hook body 11 for engaging a support of some kind.

The hook body shown is of the usual substantially circular curvature in the vicinity of its suspension point at the top and each wire portion remains in its same respective plane to the base of the hook. Here the wires are bent at 12 to form the shank of the hook. In the bends 17., the wires are still in their same respective planes and then are looped in opposite directions through 180 curves 1.3 and 14 so as to cross each other and in so doing to pass over to the plane of the other side portion. The shank of the hook, which consists of the portions of the wires comprised in the curves 12, 155 and 14, is in substantial vertical alinement with the point of suspension at the top of the hook. After crossing each other at the bottoms of the arcs l3 and 14, the wires extend divergently from each other in approximately the same general plane as that of the hook to form the garment supporting arms 15 and 16. Each arm terminates in a friction element adapted to engage the inside of a skirt belt when the arms have been contracted by downward and inward pressure and allowed to expand within the skirt as will be understood.

Each of the arms terminates in a finger 17 directed upward and outward at an obtuse angle from the arm.

Each finger 17 has mounted thereon a friction element 18 in the form of a frusto-conical pad, having a broad outer end surface 19 which is substantially flat with a relatively sharp edge contour Z0 and having its body part suitably bored to receive and fit the finger 17. The friction element 18 is suitably formed of rubber, or the like.

In operation, the arms 15 and 16 are swung downward by the operator to pass within the belt line of the skirt and then allowed to expand with the friction pads 19 bearing against the material of the skirt. In such movement of the arms 15 and 16, the entire length of the hook and its shank contributes to the resilient action of the wire.

The arms 15 and 16 are preferably bowed downward as by bends 21, so that the device may serve as a jacket hanger either alone or when engaged with a skirt as will be understood from Fig. 2.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention is herein shown and described, it will be understood that numerous details of the structure shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

1. A skirt hanger comprising, a strip of resilient wire bent upon itself in one plane at its mid-point, both side portions being then bent in like curvature side-by-side in parallel planes that lie substantially at right angles to said one plane to form a central suspension hook, and then diverging at the base of said hook to form separate shank portions spaced apart and reversely curved in substantially arcs and slightly twisted to cause each shank portion to pass from the plane of its own hook portion to that of the other, and then extending angularly across each other in opposite directions wholly within respective ones of said parallel planes to form diverging hanger arms lying generally in the plane of said hook.

2. A skirt hanger comprising, a strip of resilient wire bent upon itself in one plane at its mid-point, both side portions being then bent in like curvature side-by-side in parallel planes that lie substantially at right angles to said one plane to form a central suspension hook, and then diverging at the base of said hook to form separate shank portions spaced apart and reversely curved in substantially 180 arcs and slightly twisted to cause each shank portion to pass from the plane of its own hook portion to that of the other, and then extending angularly across each other outwardly and downwardly in opposite directions to form diverging hanger arms lying generally in the plane of said hook, each said arm terminating in an obtusely upwardly directed finger.

3. A skirt hanger comprising, a strip of resilient wire bent upon itself in one plane at its mid-point, both side portions being then bent in like curvature, side-by-side in parallel planes that lie substantially at right angles to said one plane to form a hook having a suspension point, and a shank disposed in vertical alinement with said suspension point, said side portions being bent at said shank in opposite directions, each in its respective one of said parallel planes, said side portions being then reversely looped 180 to cross each other and pass to the opposite side of each other at a point in vertical alinement with the shank, said side portions then extending divergently away from said shank substantially within the planes of said hook.

4. A skirt hanger comprising a strip of resilient wire provided with a bend upon itself in one plane at it midpoint and furnishing side portions both of which are provided with bends of like curvature and disposed in sideby-side parallel planes that lie substantially at right angles to said one plane to form a suspension hook, said side portions then diverging in their respective planes at the base of said hook to form separate shank portions spaced apart and provided with bends in opposite directions to provide arms extending substantially horizontally and divergently away from each other in planes parallel to the direction in which the hook extends, said side portions being freely movable relative to each other whereby each side portion is free to flex throughout its entire length from the first named bend to the end of the respective arm.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 834,800 Hawk Oct. 30, 1906 2,475,442 Baum July 5, 1949 2,620,954 Lundman Dec. 9, 1952 2,644,621 Urban July 7, 1953 

